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CASA Working Paper 11. 1 May 1999. Mapping Cyberspace: Visualising, Analysing and Exploring Virtual Worlds. In the past years, with the development of computer networks such as the Internet and world wide web (WWW), cyberspace has been increasingly…

CASA Working Paper 7. 1 May 1999. From Environmental Information Systems to Environmental Informatics - Evolution and Meaning. Environmental Information and Environmental Information Systems play a major role in environmental decision making. The…

CASA Working Paper 10. 1 May 1999. Multi-Agent Simulation: New Approaches to Exploring Space-Time Dynamics Within GIS. As part of the long term quest to develop more disaggregate, temporally dynamic models of spatial behaviour, micro-simulation has…

CASA Working Paper 5. 1 June 1998. The Virtual Tate. New methods for simulating the form of buildings using virtual reality (VR) have suddenly made it possible to link ways in which people use buildings to their geometric layout. VR opens up many…

CASA Working Paper 3. 1 June 1998. GIS and Urban Design. Although urban planning has used computer models and information systems since the 1950s and architectural practice has recently restructured to the use of computeraided design (CAD) and…

CASA Working Paper 4. 1 June 1998. Local Movement: Agent-Based Models of Pedestrian Flows. Modelling movement within the built environment has hitherto been focused on rather coarse spatial scales where the emphasis has been upon simulating flows of…

CASA Working Paper 2. 1 June 1998. Visual Communication in Urban Planning &Urban Design. This report documents the current status of visual communication in urban design and planning. Visual communication is examined through discussion of standalone…

CASA Working Paper 1. 1 January 1998. Modelling Virtual Urban Environments. In this paper, we explore the way in which virtual reality (VR) systems are being broadened to encompass a wide array of virtual worlds, many of which have immediate…